The history by Herodotus(
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David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus,
the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out
the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians,
the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a
unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama.
In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration
the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm
and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation
of fact and fantasy

The history of Herodotus by Herodotus(
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Computer version of Herodotus' History, plus DOS applications

The Persian wars by Herodotus(
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"The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia
and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious
political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC.
Struggling to rule the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants to rule each of them. This would
prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike."--Wikipedia

The Landmark Herodotus : the histories by Herodotus(
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"Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century B.C.E. He traveled extensively through the lands
of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and collected stories, and then recounted his experiences with the varied people and
cultures he encountered. Cicero called him "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first
true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose that harks back to the time of oral tradition, Herodotus
set a standard for narrative nonfiction that continues to this day." "In The Histories, Herodotus chronicles the rise of the
Persian Empire and its dramatic war with the Greek city-states. Within that story he includes rich veins of anthropology,
ethnography, geology, and geography, pioneering these fields of study, and explores such universal themes as the nature of
freedom, the role of religion, the human costs of war, and the dangers of absolute power." "Ten years in the making, The Landmark
Herodotus gives us a new translation by Andrea L. Purvis that makes this work of literature more accessible than ever before.
Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition also includes an introduction by Rosalind Thomas and twenty-one
appendices written by scholars at the top of their fields, covering such topics as Athenian government, Egypt, Scythia, Persian
arms and tactics, the Spartan state, oracles, religion, tyranny, and women."--Jacket

Herodoti historiarum libri IX by Herodotus(
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Herodoti Historiae by Herodotus(
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In this new edition of Herodotus' "Histories, " Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish
scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text
that has been conducted since the original edition, in particular that of J. Enoch Powell and Paul Maas, Wilson has taken
into account new readings from over 80 papyri. In addition, clarity in the apparatus criticus has been improved by the collation
of two previously neglected medieval manuscripts, which belong to the so-called Roman family. A number of passages remain
puzzling, and Wilson proposes new solutions and provides plausible emendations wherever possible. This new edition is accompanied
by a commentary, 'Herodotea', written by the editor, in which he explains many of the editorial decisions he made while revising
this key classical text.--Résumé de l'éditeur

The histories by Herodotus(
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Recounts the causes and history of the wars between the Greek city-states and Persia

Herodotus: the Histories by Herodotus(
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During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While
the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with
digressions, folk tales and stories

The history of Herodotus by Herodotus(
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The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were
known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the
West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western
world

Selections from Herodotus by Herodotus(
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This second Oklahoma edition is enhanced by Megan O. Drinkwater's addition of chapter and section references to the complete
works of Herodotus. --Book Jacket